Stuck in the "Dry Slot?"
LIFT THOSE WINTER BLUES WITH YOUR MARYLAND "FLAG IN THE FOOT"
AND BE PART OF OUR 11TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION THIS WEEKEND!
Wundermap Weather Station Obs and Radar as of 7:30 AM EST 1/24
8:24 AM 1/24 - What happened to the snow (and sleet, and freezing rain...??)
You've been caught in the most desolate land in all of forecastdom: Land of the DRY SLOT! Consider if our payback to the weather for being sacked last Sunday morning.
NO, REALLY -- What happened? The system coming north didn't tap the nearby cold as quickly as expected. Given lack of a surface High with this system, there was skepticism about it from the start by some on our team.
- Without the ability to really organize and pull in the colder components to our west, the eastern energy and precip generally separated.
- Two small surface lows formed - one off the Delmarva - one over West Virginia. This shut off the precip in between, dumping you into the Land of the Dry Slot!
- A simpler, non-scientific approach would be to glance out the window, observe little or no winter precip, and say, "Umm, I guess you were wrong??"
SO, WHAT'S NEXT? Snow is still expected this afternoon and early evening, but is not likely to be on the scale first projected.
- Temperatures are running 2-3 degrees above forecasted and the freezing line has moved into southern PA.
- Given what we see in the short range models for Monday and beyond, that is A OK. Today may be one of those reverse surprises, where snow is falling at different times, but it doesn't negatively impact your schedule.
- That said, the second system coming Sunday evening into Monday looks to be coming from the Land of the Big Kahuna. With temperatures for that event heading into the 20s overnight into Monday, the outcome is going to be a lot snowier than today. Dare we use that special word reserved for only "certain storms"? You know, the word starting with "S", with the letters -ignifican- and ending in "T".
LET THE FLAG LIFT YOUR BLUES! This weekend into Monday marks the start of our team's 11th anniversary celebration. We are very excited to formally announce the first ever "Maryland Flag-in-the-Foot" embroidered hoody!. (No worries to all our other Mid-Atlantic brethren... we haven't overlooked you. Those designs will be forthcoming.)
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Thanks to all our readers for being an integral part of authentic local weather with us these 11 exciting, stormy, powdery years!!
From all of us at the Foot's Forecast Maryland Team!
